Post-Brexit talks gear up for fish fight between EU, UK

By RAF CASERT and DAVID KEYTON, Associated Press
January 31, 2020
RAF CASERT and DAVID KEYTON, Associated Press

KILKEEL, Northern Ireland (AP) — When it comes to U.K.-European Union relations, there’s nothing like slapping a fish around. After all, both sides have been contesting who rules their waves practicallysince the United Kingdom became a member in 1973.

So it’s not so surprising that once the U.K. officially leaves the EU on Friday night, one of th e first things the two sides will wrestle over during negotiations on their post-divorce relationship is the comparatively tiny fisheries industry.

Ireland wary of UK’s optimism for EU trade deal this year

By CARLO PIOVANO, Associated Press
January 31, 2020
CARLO PIOVANO, Associated Press

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — Getting a new trade deal between the U.K. and the European Union by the end of the year — as the British government claims will happen — would be a feat “nearly without precedent,” the Irish finance minister said Thursday.

Irish border residents watch for Brexit fallout

By David Goldman, Associated Press
January 30, 2020
David Goldman, Associated Press

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
The border was drawn in 1921, splitting communities and sometimes property, as the British government sought to create a home for the majority Protestant population of Northern Ireland at a time when the largely Catholic Republic of Ireland won its independence.

From the Boston Irish archives: At Last, After 38 Long Years, People of Derry Absolved

By Joe Leary, Special to the Reporter
January 30, 2020
Joe Leary, Special to the Reporter

The tragedy of British arrogance towards Catholic Ireland over the past many centuries has never been more thoroughly revealed than in the official government report issued on the “Bloody Sunday” shootings and killings in Derry, Northern Ireland, on Jan. 30, 1972. Twenty seven unarmed Catholic protesters were shot by British soldiers just after four o’clock that afternoon – and 14 of them died.

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